Economic calendar
The days and times the data that moves the market gets published. Free, no sign-up.
Whatever method you use, there are moments in the day when price moves because of a release rather than because of anything you were reading on the chart. Knowing when that happens saves a good few frights.
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How to read it
Each row is a figure released at a specific time. The importance marker shows the ones that usually move price most. Next to each you will see what was expected and what came out: the gap between those two numbers is what the market reacts to, not the number itself.
Earnings calendar
The other calendar people watch is the earnings calendar: the day a company publishes its quarterly results. Every company does this four times a year, so across the market as a whole it is not an occasional event but four seasons — nearly all the large US companies report within the same few weeks.
The four seasons
Mid-January to mid-February
Fourth-quarter results from the previous year. The longest season and the one that moves the most, because many companies also give guidance for the year ahead.
Mid-April to mid-May
First-quarter results.
Mid-July to mid-August
Second-quarter results.
Mid-October to mid-November
Third-quarter results.
Outside those windows a few companies report most weeks, but only a few. What matters to you is simple: if you are holding a stock, check whether it reports before you plan to close the position. An earnings announcement moves the price all at once, often outside normal trading hours, and no amount of reading the chart sees it coming.
Open the earnings calendar on TradingViewThis opens TradingView in a new tab. I cannot embed it here the way the economic calendar is embedded: TradingView does not offer an earnings version for other websites. Sending you to the real thing beats copying dates by hand and letting them go stale.
This calendar is for information. It does not tell you what to do, or when to enter or leave the market, and it does not suggest that trading around a news release is a good idea.